Release Testing Help wanted
You’ve been reporting bugs via Github and the Forums. Our team has been busy collaborating with community members to get fixes prepared. We need your help to test the release alongside our QA cohort and team.
Key Dates:
Code Freeze: August 21, 2013
Testing: August 22nd to 30th, 2013
Community Test day: August 27th, 2013 (join us online via skype and IRC to collaborate)
Fixes: August 31 to September 1, 2013
Crowdmap Classic Upgrading, Tests & Overview: September 1 – 3 2013
2.7.1 Release: September 4, 2013
Community Test Day
Testing is more fun when we do it together. The Ushahidi team will be online to co-test. Join Us.
Date: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 / Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Times: Tuesday, August 27, 09:00 EAT - Wednesday, August 28, 2013 01:00 am EAT
Your Local Time: http://bit.ly/18MUbJs - http://bit.ly/151FJsX
To join this virtual online event, login to skype or irc. See Contact Us for details to find how how to connect. Introduce yourself. See the main bug tracking spreadsheet(below) or tagged github items (below). Add your items. Ask questions
How to help
If you are a server ninja, you can download the release candidate and test away. We also have a test server with you can simply login and be a pirate tester. Reminder: Crowdmap Classic uses the same software code base as Ushahidi platform, so testing.ushahidi.com will be almost like testing on Crowdmap Classic.
1. Login to Test Site: site – http://testing.ushahidi.com username = testing@ushahidi.com password = admin2013 2. Test and Identify bugs: There are two ways to give feedback on the release candidate: a. Add an issue to GitHub b. Add the bugs to this spreadsheet to track feedback.
2. Test and Identify bugs: There are two ways to give feedback on the release candidate:
3 There are 32 bugs fixes. We know that you have limited time, so even testing one of these items will help everyone. The full list is on the Test Spreadsheet and in Github.
Reporting a Bug
We are asking all bugs to be flagged on the spreadsheet. Report a bug guidelines
Here are some top level items:
General Fixes
Login page issues: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1161
CSV Uploads
https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1181, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1169
CSV downloaded form platform throws errors on attempt to upload: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1140, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/684b67c242adc92873e1bf8ab9728993b4ba8f63
Report Management
Error with reports view page: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1176, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1166, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1178, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/e2deabb
Validation error on custom fields dropdown: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1113, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/ed301966b7cdafaa919c58a6844f763915d4914b
Incident location not on incident pages: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1121, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/0c48d8733076e00454cd891ed2ae38c5203f6b1b
Twitter and Media Errors
Twitter Credential Error: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1109, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1131
Twitter scheduler bugs: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1133
Error adding report to a photo (Crowdmap Classic): https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1099, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/commit/52ad173bf4fd21f9754850cccb1b1fa470ab4461
Ushahidi should not upsize uploaded images, only downsize them.
Upload images .jpeg fails: https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/pull/1152, https://github.com/ushahidi/Ushahidi_Web/issues/1136
Thanks in advance to all those who reported these bugs, helped fix and test them. More in coming weeks leading up to the Release.